- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 19, 1866 CE
- Location:
- Chios, Aegean Sea
- Magnitude:
- 5.82 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- AHEAD: Mw 5.82
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 6.4
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.8
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.4
- AHEAD: Mw 5.42
Other earthquake records of 1866 CE
- Turkey, Goynuk · Ms 7.2 · 675 deaths
- Albania, Smokthine, Velca, Vlore · 60 deaths
- Albania, Narta, Vlore, Kanina · Mw 6.6 · 60 deaths
- Philippines, N Luzon: Laoag
- Albania · M 6.7
- Nepal, Kathmandu
Press of the period
Archive newspaper issues published within a few days of this event. These issues may not report the event itself; they offer a direct window onto the press of the period.
- Luxemburger WortJanuary 19, 1866open in archive ↗
- L'UnionJanuary 19, 1866open in archive ↗
- Courrier du Grand Duché de LuxembourgJanuary 19, 1866open in archive ↗
- Der Wächter an der SauerJanuary 18, 1866open in archive ↗
- Courier of the Grand Duchy of LuxembourgJanuary 18, 1866open in archive ↗
- The Brecon reporterJanuary 20, 1866open in archive ↗
Source: Albini, P., Locati, M., Rovida, A. & Stucchi, M. (2013): European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data (AHEAD), INGV, doi:10.6092/ingv.it-ahead · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1866 Chios, Aegean Sea earthquake (Mw 5.8) (1866 CE) happen?
- January 19, 1866 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Albini, P., Locati, M., Rovida, A. & Stucchi, M. (2013): European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data (AHEAD), INGV, doi:10.6092/ingv.it-ahead; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.
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